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The Chicago Fund for Safe and Peaceful Communities

The Partnership for Safe and Peaceful Communities, a coalition of philanthropic organizations, launched the Fund for Safe and Peaceful Communities in 2016.

The Fund exists to create the conditions for violence prevention and reduction during the summer months, and supports activities by nonprofit organizations that build community cohesion and promote safety and peace.

The Partnership is the administrator of the Fund for Safe and Peaceful Communities, which is supported by institutional and individual donors whose contributions make it possible to award thousands of dollars in grants.

The Fund offers rapid-response grant opportunities designed to support community-based actions and activities that make neighborhoods safer.It was created in direct response to the many people and grassroots organizations that are already taking powerful, on-the-ground action in their neighborhoods. For more information on the Fund and its grants, read the full Request for Proposals here.

Donors to this Fund also are engaged in larger, long-term efforts to help address the problem of violence prevention and community safety. What makes this Fund different from those efforts is that its intended purpose is to provide highly-targeted, immediate support to smaller, neighborhood-based groups over the summer of 2018.To be clear, the Fund is not meant to be a quick fix to the broad and complex problem of violence nor is it a substitute for the intensive and wide-ranging efforts already underway (or being planned) to develop responses to the many root causes of the challenge.

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The Safe and Peaceful Communities 2018 grant-making period has ended. Visit this website to read stories of people and organizations working for a safer Chicago, follow our work on Facebook and Twitter, or stay on this site to meet our 2018 grant recipients.

The 2018 grant application period has closed.

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Deadlines

March 15, 2018 — Request for Proposals opens

April 17, 2018 — Application deadline

May 11, 2018 — Announcement of grant awards

May 21, 2018 — Distribution of grant award checks

October 31, 2018 — Completion of all funded activities

We appreciate your interest in supporting this Fund. Thank you.

We believe in the power of collective philanthropy and welcome donations of any amount.